The NFL preseason is officially underway and that means regular season football is just around the corner. It also means it’s time for mock draft season to turn into power rankings season.
Such was the case over at Touchdown Wire, who released their preseason power rankings earlier this week. And when it came to the New York Giants, they did not fare particularly well.
27. New York Giants
The Giants have a new general manager in Joe Schoen and a new head coach in Brian Daboll, so perhaps those two guys can right the ship for a team that hasn’t sniffed the playoffs since 2016, and hasn’t won a playoff game since they bagged Super Bowl XLVI at the end of the 2011 season.
Some coaching continuity would help. Big Blue has cycled through five head coaches since Tom Coughlin’s time ended in 2015. Ownership has tended to go with overwhelmed autocrats, and Daboll isn’t that, so there’s an improvement right there.
Daboll got this job primarily because, as the Bills’ offensive coordinator, he was able to help Josh Allen transform from a toolsy unknown to one of the game’s best quarterbacks. Now, he’ll turn his attention to Daniel Jones, who is nowhere near as toolsy, but is equally unknown as an NFL prospect. This is Jones’ fourth season, the team didn’t pick up his fifth-year option, so if things don’t go well here, expect wholesale changes in 2023. (History suggests that things will not go well). Perhaps that’s when Daboll gets his guy (whoever that may be), and the rebuilding process can accelerate.
The Giants were ranked the lowest of any NFC East team.
Comparatively, the Washington Commanders checked in at No. 23 overall, the Philadelphia Eagles at No. 13 overall and the Dallas Cowboys at No. 11 overall.
The New York Jets were ranked 25th overall.
The Buffalo Bills topped the rankings, while the Atlanta Falcons bottomed out at No. 32 overall.
